This guy that I know is putting together a show at the Dreamland Theater next Thursday night, and, as it involves a band that I feel as though I should probably know, I thought that I’d pass it along. The band is M.O.T.O. (Masters Of The Obvious), and, according to what I’m told, they’ve been […]
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I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess shit like that can’t happen anymore, given how scripted everything is, and how nothing’s really live, but I would have loved it if they’d sent him out to do Real Wild Child only to have him pull an Elvis Costello and launch into something decidedly […]
By Mark | October 21, 2010
I’ve got work to do tonight, but I can’t seem to find the energy. So, I’m procrastinating, watching old episodes of The Tomorrow Show, and bemoaning the fact that we don’t have good, substantive late night talk shows anymore, or, for that matter, television hosts like Tom Synder. For those of you unfamiliar with Tom, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Media | Also tagged 1977, Cherie Currie, dog meat, Google, jail-bait rock, Joan Jett, Kim Fowley, new wave, offshore tax havens, punk, Runaways, sex kittens, The Runaways, The Tomorrow Show, Tom Snyder, Tomorrow, villians |
By Mark | September 14, 2010
I’m waiting for Clementine to fall asleep, drinking a well-deserved beer, and skipping around the internet, looking for archival footage from the early days of CBGBs. And, in the process, I happened across this segment from the 1995 PBS documentary entitled Rock and Roll. I think I saw it when it was first broadcast, but […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged Blondie, CBGB, Chris Franz, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, DIY, do it yourself, Hilly Kristal, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Patti Smith, punk, Ramones, Rock and Roll, Talking Heads, television, Tina Wymouth, Tom Verlaine |
By Mark | August 18, 2010
Occasionally, as a public service, I like to reprint something here from Facebook, for all the folks that I can’t bring myself to “friend.” So, any thoughts? Am I alone in thinking that the folks who gathered here in Ann Arbor for Punk Week weren’t really punks, at least in the classic sense? And I […]
